2018-05-22T09:08:08.000000000+00:00
President Jimmy Carter believes that under Trump, democracy is threatened and moral leadership is lacking. But if Korea goes well, he says there could be a Nobel Prize in Trump’s future.

Sources

Fox News

2018-05-24T17:24:00.000000000+00:00
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee urged President Trump give an interview to Robert Mueller as part of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 presidential race.

2018-05-24T17:05:00.000000000+00:00
President Trump on Thursday granted a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, after being urged to do so by “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone.

2018-05-24T16:09:00.000000000+00:00
Minutes after pulling out of a highly anticipated summit with North Korea, President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. would continue its "maximum pressure campaign," and warned that the military was "ready if necessary" -- but made clear a summit could still go forward if Kim Jong Un is willing ...

2018-05-24T15:59:00.000000000+00:00
The FBI and Justice Department on Thursday briefed lawmakers on the special counsel's Russia investigation, amid President Trump’s outcry over revelations that a confidential informant made contact with several of his advisers during the 2016 campaign.

2018-05-24T15:36:00.000000000+00:00
President Trump’s decision to pull out of a planned, historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was met with both praise and condemnation by lawmakers -- mostly depending on the politician’s political party.

2018-05-24T14:35:00.000000000+00:00
Back in January, Democrats confidently predicted a "blue wave" would wipe out Republican control of Congress. This forecast is looking less certain as that lead shrinks by the week, with one poll even showing Republicans on top.

2018-05-24T09:00:06.000000000+00:00
Interviews and newly obtained documents provide the Pentagon’s first public on-the-ground accounting of one of the bloodiest battles the military has faced in Syria since deploying to fight ISIS.

2018-05-24T09:00:54.000000000-04:00
That was President Trump’s suggestion to NFL players who protest racial injustice. His comments, made in an interview with Fox News, highlight a dissonance in his thinking on free speech.

Sources

Yahoo! News

2018-05-24T10:27:33.000000000-04:00
President Trump reportedly told a friend this week that he wanted to “brand” the FBI informant who met with members of his 2016 campaign a “spy” because he believed the term would stick. On Thursday morning, Trump used the term three times in a single tweet.

2018-05-24T09:24:54.000000000-04:00
House Democrats were thwarted in their attempt to probe the Justice Department’s backing of a citizenship question in the 2020 census and whether President Trump’s administration was involved.

2018-05-23T19:14:04.000000000-04:00
The event was billed as a roundtable “on immigration loopholes that enable MS-13 to infiltrate our communities.” But at times it almost seemed as though the purpose was to validate the president’s description of MS-13 members as “animals.”

2018-05-23T18:23:44.000000000-04:00
The press is framing Democratic primary contests as "establishment" versus "outsiders," but in fact, the categories blur, and both wings of the party have done well so far.

2018-05-23T09:21:33.000000000-04:00
President Trump on Wednesday continued to spread the conspiratorial — and completely unproven — claim that a “spy” was “placed” inside his presidential campaign by the Obama administration and its Department of Justice.

2018-05-23T09:08:32.000000000-04:00
For the second time in a year, President Trump will travel to Long Island Wednesday for a forum on combatting MS-13, the small but violent street gang that has been a central focus of his crackdown on illegal immigration. Trump’s apparent obsession with the gang has been met with confusion and cr...

2018-05-24T17:25:40.000000000+00:00
President Donald Trump has signed the biggest rollback of financial regulation since the Dodd-Frank Act was enacted in 2010, freeing smaller banks from the burden of being labeled too big to fail. Surrounded by lawmakers and financial regulators at the White House on Thursday, Trump put pen to pa...

2018-05-23T21:58:30.000000000+00:00
For months, strategists have advised Democratic candidates to stay away from the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia during the 2016 election. The thinking was that voters care more about bread-and-butter issues like jobs, terrorism and trade, and arguments about Special ...

Sources

Washington Times

2018-05-24T13:13:00.000000000-04:00
President Trump on Thursday signed a measure rolling back some of the strict regulations of the Dodd-Frank law that were slapped on banks after the 2008 economic meltdown. The new sweeping reforms would save community banks that were being driven out of business by the rules and allow them to ...

2018-05-24T12:59:56.000000000-04:00
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois lawmaker who says House Speaker Michael Madigan retaliated against her for statements about rooting out sexual harassment in the Capitol wants the process for investigating ethics complaints in the Legislature overhauled. Chicago Democratic Rep. Kelly Cassidy...

2018-05-24T12:40:33.000000000-04:00
BERLIN (AP) - Iran appears to be complying with a 2015 deal with major powers that was meant to stop it from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday. The United States pulled out of the pact earlier this ...

2018-05-24T12:25:57.000000000-04:00
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon's attorney general has released a certified ballot title for an initiative that would restrict the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the state. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the new title released Wednesday states that the initiative prohibits ...

2018-05-24T12:21:00.000000000-04:00
President Trump canceled his highly anticipated summit Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and warned Pyongyang that the U.S military is "ready if necessary" to respond to any reckless actions. In a letter, Mr. Trump told Mr. Kim that he was canceling the summit due to North Korea's "tr...

2018-05-24T12:17:15.000000000-04:00
HOUSTON (AP) - Texas' rapidly increasing population will give the state an economic edge in coming years as the United States wrestles with sluggish growth in both the labor force and productivity, two trends that could weigh on the nation's economic future, said Robert Kaplan, president of the F...

2018-05-24T12:06:27.000000000-04:00
Republican leaders Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Reps. Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy arrived at the Department of Justice just before noon Thursday for a meeting to discuss the FBI's activities during the 2016 presidential election. Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, also arrived at the meeting.

2018-05-24T11:47:51.000000000-04:00
President Trump is deregulating space. Mr. Trump on Thursday will sign a space policy directive aimed at boosting America exploration of space by streamlining regulations on commercial space activity. He's made cutting federal regulations a cornerstone of his presidency and now is expanding it to...

2018-05-24T11:44:16.000000000-04:00
MARENGO, Ill. (AP) - Federal investigators found that a small plane had flipped over before a nighttime crash into a northern Illinois farm field, killing a Chicago-area activist in late 2016. The National Transportation Safety Board's findings don't give a cause for the crash that killed pilot R...

2018-05-24T11:39:00.000000000-04:00
Some top congressional Democrats scolded President Trump Thursday over the collapse of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, accusing the president of amateurish and dangerous diplomacy. House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said the president's letter to Mr. Kim cancel...

2018-05-24T17:26:10.000000000+00:00
Trump told Kim that "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting"

2018-05-24T17:07:12.000000000+00:00
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, charged with helping Democrats win their Senate races in the fall, talked about why candidates will be focusing on health care in their campaigns

2018-05-24T13:06:30.000000000+00:00
The president's son-in law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, finally has official permission to review top-secret material with a permanent security clearance. His temporary access was blocked by chief of staff John Kelly in February. Paula Reid reports.

Sources

San Jose Mercury

2016-09-06T18:09:00.000000000-07:00
Two years after a teenager hopped the airport's perimeter fence and sneaked into the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jet, Mineta San Jose International finished installing higher fencing topped with barbed wire and could soon install more security cameras.

2016-09-06T17:33:41.000000000-07:00
An east San Jose shopping center with a controversial past is at the center of a new dispute between a powerful landowner and business tenants who fear his expansion plans will aggravate traffic, parking and crime in one of the city's most crowded corners.

2016-09-06T16:46:50.000000000-07:00
Hillary Clinton will return to the Bay Area Monday for a concert fundraiser headlined by k.d. lang and Lizz Wright in San Francisco. Ticket prices range from $250 to $50,000.

2016-09-06T14:41:40.000000000-07:00
The amateur lobbyists of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges saw big success in this year's legislative session, with five of the seven bills the students championed on their way to the governor's desk or awaiting his signature. Their achievement is even more remarkable consideri...

2016-09-05T09:43:44.000000000-07:00
Hillary Clinton is traveling Monday aboard a new Boeing 737 campaign plane for the first time.Clinton was flying to Labor Day events in Ohio and Illinois in a blue-and-white campaign plane with her press corps.

2016-09-05T08:48:16.000000000-07:00
While the state's newly released 2016 scores show small improvements overall compared to last year's results, one largely overlooked gap persists: In virtually every major school district in the state, boys continue to score lower than girls in English.

2016-09-05T06:26:54.000000000-07:00
Californians with Medicare coverage would no longer be surprised by huge medical bills stemming from hospital 'observation care' under legislation that state lawmakers recently approved overwhelmingly and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown to sign into law.

2016-09-03T16:04:13.000000000-07:00
K12 Inc. wasn't pleased when it learned in June that California's top education official had enlisted the state's highest-ranking accountant to conduct a sweeping audit of its profitable but low-performing network of online schools.